Blogs

As El Niño intensifies, evidence from across the Amazon basin shows why Amazon wildfire prevention depends on Indigenous knowledge and fire governance built from the territories up.

To build resilience to climate hazards,  practitioners are shifting to implementing systems change-oriented  programmes that sustainably reduce hazard vulnerability at scale.

To prepare Bangladesh for the increasing impacts of climate hazards, shifting from traditional single-hazard approaches to more integrated strategies is urgent.

At the Bonn Climate Conference – an important milestone on the road to COP31 – negotiators struggled to make progress on key questions concerning adaptation finance, while getting funds to local institutions and communities is needed more than ever. New insights from the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance highlight practical pathways for strengthening locally led adaptation […]

New global analysis by the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre (RCCC) shows that heat Early Warning Systems are expanding rapidly worldwide, but also remain highly diverse. 

Across CBA20 sessions, one message stood out clearly: locally led adaptation must become the norm, and that can only be achieved through significant shifts in power, financing, and knowledge systems.

Practical Action’s Leon Lizon explains how taking a long-term approach to community programming is creating positive shifts in Disaster Risk Management across Bolivia.

Concern Worldwide’s Mohammed Nabinbur Rahman explains how local governments in Bangladesh have made a distinctive shift from reactive disaster relief to proactive resilience-building.

Mercy Corps’ Sanjit Shrestha explains how identifying opportunities to replicate successful interventions is delivering effective climate resilience at scale in Nepal.